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It's cold out there!

This morning its 9 degrees below zero with an expected high of 3 below, and tonight is supposed to be colder! Hope the girls aren't to cold! and have stores to get them through!
The hives are wrapped with tarpaper.

More cold coming in this weekend. One hive is down for the count. The other had lots of brown and yellow splotches all over it a week or so ago when we had a warm blast so I'm hoping that one will be OK!

"My wife always wanted girls. Just not thousands and thousands of them......"

Southern California

IT IS COLD OVER THERE!
I am asked repeatedly about how the bees stay warm when it is cold. It is really a phenonmen. Not onley the honey bee ,but the other life forms too.

47 DEGREES f. AT 6:50
I plan putting on more Mann Lake 15% Bee-Pro patties & BevSweet today when it warms up to 65 as we have a forecasted 70 today
The arroyo willows are in bloom and the bees are returning to the hive with beauitiful 2008 pollen! It's a pleasant sight to see. My Russian breeder queens are A ok and so are her daughters.

Beache---

You guys make me coooold!
Supposed to be single digits high here tomorrow, am going to fill the hounds dog box with straw today to make sure he is comfortable. This will be our first and hopefully last cold blast of winter.

cold

8 degrees here with -7 windchill. I have lost 1 hive due to starvation , got a big split and 1 hive left. My bottom boards are open, but the hives are wrapped with tarpaper, stores looked adequate last time I checked.

I can only hope stores are adequete. I havent had a hive open since the middle of Nov. and its way to cold to open em up just to see. The girls took an awful lot of 2:1 thru the fall. I guess well see if I have any brown spots when the deep freeze gets done!

IT IS COLD OVER THERE!
I am asked repeatedly about how the bees stay warm when it is cold.

People ask me the same thing... "how do bees the battle the cold?" I try to reference them to beeks like Ian, he's where its cold. Here in SC we hardly ever gets below 27F. I'm thankful it never gets down into the single digits!

Cold here as well, right around zero overnight, colder tonight though. Me an the oldest boy went out an cut wood today, that's how we keep warm. Gonna go out again tomorrow an monday too, woodpile got awlful low the last few months.